Have you seen the Kaufman documentary? IMO Carey is certifiably insane, he spat on someone and refused to apologize because it wasn’t him, it was Andy. He literally thought he was possessed, or at least acted like that’s what he thought
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daggermoon@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I’m so conflicted about Jim Carey. On one hand, he’s a based socialist, on the other, he’s an anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorist idiot.
Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
people are complex and can be right about some things and wrong in others, nuance exists.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
I had this with the youtuber and investigative journalist Johnny Harris. He has some good videos where he does deep dive investigative journalism but then in other videos he hears something and just accepts it as fact. For instance, in his video on who is Elon Musk he accepts what Musk said about his history as fact and didn’t check any of it. Or he uses multiple sources all leading to the same source: Musk. So the entire video is a big Musk circlejerk promo video. But with other videos he doesn’t accept something that easily and goes really deep to find the truth. So I googled the guy, apparently he’s a devout Mormon. How can I take this guy seriously with anything if I can’t trust him to check his sources properly every time, when some things are just what he believes and accepts without doubting any of it. I mean, the guy believes in fairy tales, and really weard one too. So all of his material becomes junk as it’s really hard to disect the good journalism from the bad yourself, without doing all the research yourself completely. He’s a selective journalist, not an investigative one. But it took a while to spot the twisted info he produces. I followed him for a while and though he delivered proper investigations until he made videos on something I specialized in and he made critical errors while stating it as fact. This is, in my opinion, one of the most dangerous fake news forms out there. It even fooled me, while I’m not easily fooled.
barlescharkley@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
He’s definitely not a devout Mormon. He previously was, but then left the church.
He actually has a good series of videos on that. Recommend a watch.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 4 hours ago
Back in the day, people relied on main stream media that fact checked everything.
Then Ronald Reagan, Roger Ailes, and Rupert Murdoch came along.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Back in the day, people relied on main stream media that “fact checked” everything.
there was likely less fake news, but still not perfect?
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
[from memory]
I stopped following him when he made a propaganda sponsored video without saying who paid for it. that’s not a ‘being wrong in some thing and right in others’ that’s more like the guys can’t be trusted.
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
But as an internet commentator I am morally obligated to either stan them or hate them!
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Newsteinleo@midwest.social 14 hours ago
This is pretty much everyone.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
yeah, it’s obvious, yet somehow people are always surprised
woelkchen@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Rich people are only socialist until someone tries to redistribute their wealth. It’s all an act.
Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
Jom Carrey is antivaxx?
Hylactor@sopuli.xyz 20 hours ago
Vaccine skepticism
In 2009, Carrey wrote an article questioning the merits of vaccination for The Huffington Post.[149] With former partner Jenny McCarthy, Carrey led a “Green Our Vaccines” march in Washington, D.C., to advocate for the removal of “toxic substances” from children’s vaccines, out of a belief that children had received “too many vaccines, too soon, many of which are toxic”.[150] The rally was criticized by David Gorski, an American surgical oncologist on Science-Based Medicine blog, for being anti-vaccine and not “pro-safe vaccine”,[151] and by Steven Parker on the WebMD website for being “irresponsible”.[152]
On July 1, 2015, after the signing of a new vaccination law, Carrey called California Governor Jerry Brown a “corporate fascist” who was “poisoning” children by enacting the vaccination requirements.[153] The law disallowed religious and philosophical reasons for exemption from vaccination. Carrey was criticized for being “ignorant when it comes to vaccines” by Arthur Caplan, head of the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University,[154] and by Jeffrey Kluger, senior writer at Time, who described his anti-vaccination statements as “angry, dense and immune to reason”.[155]
MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website 2 hours ago
Gah what a fucking tool.
Well at least he isn’t getting paid when I rewatch Ace Ventura 2 on plex 😎
Grimy@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I like him enough as an actor to forgive the indiscretion if he had a change of heart. It seems there’s nothing past 2015, and I feel like he must have changed his opinion if he was silent about it during COVID.
Maybe it’s just wishful thinking, I haven’t looked past the wiki.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
He’s openly said that he isn’t Jim Carrey, Jim Carrey is his Batman to his Bruce Wayne.
“I’m not real.” -Jim Carrey.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
nothing on jenny past 2015, its like news about them disappeared after that, maybe they are keeping thier anti-vax more private.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Unfortunately, yes. Check out the Wikipedia article. It’s a roller coaster ride.
bizarroland@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Probably from his time being married to Tea Leoni.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Yeah, but if I had to choose between him and Adam Sandler I would go Jim any day of the week.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
I wouldn’t rush to Jim, though.
I’d go…at a medium pace…
nomy@lemmy.zip 13 hours ago
I prefer Jims acting and the roles he’s chosen, but Adam seems like he’s probably a nicer person.
pendel@feddit.org 3 hours ago
Adam Sandler is a Zionist it hardly gets more nasty than that
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
Its an Adam Sandler song reference…“At a medium pace”.
Imo peak Sandler music. Everyone remembers Lunch Lady Land and Thanksgiving and Chanukah Song because they are (mostly) family friendly and get played on the radio sometimes.
At A Medium Pace will not get played on legit terrestrial radio. It is probably not family appropriate, unless your family has a traveling act called “The Aristocrats”.
krashmo@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
In what category?
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Movies.
But this is a very niche joke based Animals in HBO dedication an entire episode+ to litigating Sandler vs Carrey
Basically trying to start a war in the comments
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Penis size?
daggermoon@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Yeah, true
turdcollector69@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I don’t like Jim at all, he’s a brain damaged hypocrite who thinks he’s the wisest motherfucker to ever live.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I think you may be reading him wrong. He keeps saying he isn’t him or anyone else. I think he thinks that he is just a guy, and Jim Carrey is his Batman. I kinda feel bad for the guy, as it seems that he has to keep feeding the machine so he can pay for whatever debts he’s trying to take care of.
turdcollector69@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
“He keeps saying he isn’t him or anyone else.”
The guy doesn’t want to take responsibility for the terrible things he’s done like driving Cathriona White to suicide or him being a massive hypocrite when he took action movie money then claimed that anyone who sees the movie is endorsing irl violence.
He’s just another washed comedian from the 90’s who thinks his immense privilege is somehow profound.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Yeah, rewatching the documentary that Patrick CC made on him does highlight that a bit more than I remembered.
Fedizen@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
A lot of people are upset that you’re poo-pooing on their childhood celebrity nostalgia. We’re gonna ask you to poo poo on somebody else’s nostalgia.
Maybe something less charged like a celebrity from the Apprentice or Oprah?
Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
That sounds kinda brain damaged to me
Etterra@discuss.online 4 hours ago
He’s also monumentally depressed.